On 1/30/07, Nick Jenkins nickpj@gmail.com wrote:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070124/ - "page abstracts for Yahoo" - what is this file?
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<title>Wikipedia: April</title> <url>http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April</url> <abstract>April is the fourth month of the year with 30 days. The name April comes from that Latin word aperire which means "to open".
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Just out of curiosity, how is that abstract generated, and could it be generated quickly on the fly?
It looks to just be the first two sentences of the article.